NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, Jan.4,
2021 (Monday)
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**Frank Branch got a nice photo of a MERLIN [Faucon émerillon] to realize what was raiding his Paquetville
feeders the past few days. Frank
comments, one of his NORTHERN CARDINAL [Cardinal rouge] who is still present is choosing always
to feed at the same place under one of his yard Cedar trees, possibly very wise
with a Merlin on the hunt.
**Ray Gauvin’s surprising number of 4 PINE WARBLER [Paruline des
pins]
are very much still patronizing his
Pointe-du-Chene feeder yard. They tend
to feed on the suet block. They really
go for treat tidbits like breadcrumbs and even Cheezies he tosses on the deck. Ray is suspicious he had a quick visit from a
Northern Cardinal on Sunday and the WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH [Sittelle
à poitrine blanche] that
occasionally makes a quick grab-and-run visit.
**Dave Christie comments that he, Barb
Curlew, and John Inman were in contact Sunday to monitor a sizable movement of
Canada Geese and ducks moving down Shepody Bay on Sunday after the storm in apparent
migration that they had not noted previously.
**Daryl Doucet sends a few close-up
photos of his outside-his-window deck feeder.
Lots of colour.
**Jane LeBlanc sends an updated photo of the female member of her Northern Cardinal pair in her St. Martin’s yard. Jane also sends a photo of a patch of British Soldier Lichen. The bright red apothecia is the spore bearing portion of the fungal component of this colourful Lichen.
Jane also got a few
photos of a SHARP-SHINNED
HAWK [Épervier brun]
checking out her menu. Note the hooded
head and neck area and a notch in the tail, easily separating it from a COOPER'S HAWK [Épervier de
Cooper].
A male EVENING GROSBEAK [Gros-bec errant]
gave a face-to -face view as it
recovered just outside a window, after a window strike.
**Krista Doyle photographed some WHITE-TAILED DEER [Cerf de
Virginie] in
her Lewis Mountain yard on Sunday. Note
how they have taken on their thicker, more greyish pelage of winter.
**Aldo Dorio got a photo of a ROCK PIGEON [Pigeon biset]
very suitably camouflaged for Winter.
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